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A Non-Profit Board’s AHA Moment

Lead Change Blog

All of our efforts to advance our goals are futile if we don’t have new leaders ready to jump onboard. It’s difficult to keep volunteers motivated and engaged or showing up. Our ultimate goal is to elevate the organization within the community so that people want to attend our events and join our volunteer efforts.

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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

Identify strategic objectives and goals. Tactics feed into objectives, which feed into goals, which feed into strategy, which feeds into Vision. By benchmarking activities and accomplishments against planned objectives, then the company has a barometer of its previous phase and an indicator of its next phase.

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Fourth Quarter Is Crunch Time, But It Doesn’t Have to Be Painful. Here’s How to Use Year-End Rituals to Get 2019 Off to a Better Start

Steve Farber

Leadership should definitely acknowledge the positive: reaching goals, increasing social-media following, reducing turnover, completing projects, and the like. Year-end meetings don’t have to be lip service or a veiled self-congratulating happy time spent lauding what was accomplished during the year.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Apollo Technical reports that 39 percent of those considering job changes are motivated by higher salaries. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Those who feel unfairly compensated move on.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. Get benchmark information from surveys and specialist experts. Defining politics.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

By analyzing the true motives for networking (yours and other people’s), one can avoid hurt feelings and letdowns. They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. So, we serve on their volunteer committees, convinced they will think well of us…enough to speak well of us to still others. Now I Want _.

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When to Reward Employees with More Responsibility and Money

Harvard Business Review

Providing more responsibility without a corresponding change in title or raise can sap motivation. Take a look at all of her duties and try to benchmark them against other jobs in the company or in the broader employment market. Remember, there are other ways to motivate. How much of a raise? These can be tough conversations.